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Stacy Christiansen

Sentence fragments, which lack a subject or a verb, should not be used in scientific or technical writing (except within the structured abstract; see 2.5, Abstract). Writers of prose and poetry occasionally use sentence fragments intentionally, for effect.
Her affect signaled depression. Utter depression.
In scientific writing, these fragments are likely to be unintentional and are inappropriate....